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OPS Annual Program

43rd Annual Meeting and Educational Program

November 9-13, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

Online Course Evaluation Surveys must be completed to obtain the CECs for each of the courses you attended. Use this link to access the CEC Evaluation Surveys for the 2012 Annual Educational Program. THIS LINK IS FOR MEETING ATTENDEES ONLY:

"Outstanding
program” "Innovative courses” "Great speakers” "Awesome workshops” These are
just a few of the many positive comments I heard about the OPS’ 43rd
Educational Program held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago. Although much
appreciated, I cannot take all the credit for this. This program, in addition
to all OPS educational programs, is truly a collaborative effort by many
individuals. These educational endeavors would not be successful without these
efforts and your continued support. Below are
some final thoughts/summaries from a few members of the Program Planning Team.

Thanks,

Bob Cavicchi,
General Chair

From the
Education Chair, Dennis Thayer:

Once again
the 2012 OPS Annual Meeting is in the history books. The educational portion's
success was a combination of over 77 classes and workshops including basic and
future looking subjects. More than 100 lecturers, workshop assistants, room
monitors and many more OPS members working behind the scenes were willing to
take time to make this meeting one of the best educational programs ever. My
thanks to new speakers, both MDs and OPS members who helped give us a
different take on many subjects from gonio photography to dry AMD and many more. The OPS is a vibrant
group and it is only as successful as the volunteers who make this meeting and
others possible. Our strength is the pool of information OPS members and others
provide to make our educational programs both interesting and filled with solid
information on subjects both directed in our daily jobs and looking ahead to
the future of ophthalmic imaging.

From the Workshop Chair, Lydia Dimmer:

This year’s meeting offered varied core and advanced
workshops as well as other popular topics, such as Anterior Segment OCT, Slit
Lamp and Gonio Photography, B Scan, and Wide Angle Imaging. I feel fortunate to have had the help of such a fabulous
team of outstanding faculty from around the country, including some 1st rate
technical support specialists from our contributing vendors. It was great to see the expertise and experience next to the
energetic enthusiasm of the newer members.
Students were engaged and had positive hands on experiences. I would like to extend a BIG THANKS to all instructors and especially to the workshop coordinators who facilitated well
guided courses.

From the
Equipment Chair, Jim Soque:

We had an
incredible amount of volunteer support from all of our members, and their
relations alike, who helped me receive, stage, and move equipment accordingly for the 2012 Annual Meeting. Volunteers kept in constant communication with
regard to loading in equipment from our list of vendors, helping with the
orchestration of receipt of equipment, managing the freight elevators,
maintaining a secure location in Seville West Ballroom, and positioning the
various devices into the designated workshop ballrooms, prior to their use
throughout the program. All of the volunteers I recruited deserve our profound
thanks for taking time during their busy schedules to help with the staging of
the equipment that was used for the Annual Program. To my
knowledge, there was no damage of equipment, no damage sustained to the hotel
dwelling, and no difficulties at the receiving end, or at the load out end
throughout the entire 8 days of our involvement with the Intercontinental
Hotel, Chicago. The hotel support staff and planning committees aided with our
every need, and were very pleasant to work with, in all regards. This includes
the staging of our workshop rooms, security, freight elevator demand, and
timely access of designated rooms, throughout our venue. They deserve a warm
‘Thank You’ from the OPS for their smooth operation of their facility during
our stay with them.

From the Volunteer
Coordinator, Laura Savage:

Twenty-nine
people volunteered their time this year to serve as Room Monitors for the 2012 Annual
Program. We had both first time and seasoned Room Monitors. One first time Room
Monitor is a professional photographer who took courses in order to find out
more about ophthalmic photography to see if it was a field they wanted to go
into! This was a meeting of changes and challenges as the OPS retired the old
course evaluation cards and upgraded to on-line course evaluations. The Room
Monitors did amazing job learning and implementing the new process and the time
they spent helping the Program attendees enter their on-line evaluations was
greatly appreciated.

2012 Program Sponsors

The following vendors will be sponsoring the Annual Program in Chicago. Be sure to check out their instruments in our workshops and if you get a chance to enter the AAO exhibit, visit their booths at the Convention Center. You can also click on their names below to see their websites. The OPS greatly appreciates the support these vendors provide.

The Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society wishes to express gratitude to these companies and their representatives who furnish financial contributions, equipment, supplies and technical support for the Annual Educational Program.Without their support and enthusiasm the workshops and other portions of this program would not be possible.